Someone elses question :
1. What do you feel your impact is on the student body? Quite a bit, I think: I influence their attitudes, their work-ethic, their careers.2. Do you think the school spends its money wisely? Too generic a Q! The school COULD be wiser: Id like more to be spent on academics, less on sports.3. Is there any specific way you think the school can improve? Keep the library open longer; make it easier it fire bad teachers; make the school year and day longer.4. Do you think the school should be stricter with their graduation requirements? Yes, students rise to the higher expectations made of them.5. Do you think seniority is a good basis for cutting teachers? No, merit should be! The worst should be dismissed.6. How do you feel about “No Child Left Behind”? Positive: it had brought accountability to the centre of the debate.7. In your opinion, how should a teacher be evaluated? Examine the IMPROVEMENT in TEST SCORES the students make, relative to students of comparable demographics.8. Do you think money is the answer to schools improving?A higher pay shall attract a better quality of teachers: Norway, Sweden and Singapore recruit teachers from the TOP of their class and pay them VERY well; the U.S. from the bottom [really!].9. Do you think the number of kids in a classroom positively or negatively affects a student’s learning abilities, and why? Depends on the level: for a good teacher teaching an upper-level class, numbers are irrelevant. To be true, individual ATTENTION shall suffer...but teaching quality shouldnt!10. Do you think your students’ standardized test scores reflect you as a teacher? Yes! The CSTs measure the minimum basic requirement for students to know before they progress.
Another students questions :
2) What are your thoughts on summer school, should it be longer, shorter, stay the same, or go back to how it was; tree month in school and then one month of vacation? Yes, summer school should be dramatically longer: right now, we shrink 180 hours of material to ~100hrs!
5) How do you keep students Interested in what you are teaching them? Through humour, drawing connections between concepts, showing the relevance of the concepts in the real-world
And my questions that got answered:
1) Well, What do you think about our education? Very weak compared to Europe and Asia.
3) What are your views on merit pay? ( pay teachers extra money do to how well students do on CSTs ) Am a fan.
4) Do you think that schools should have a formal dress code? I am not familiar w any research that shows that dress code enhances student behaviour / learning.
6) Should students go to school more days of the year and more hours during the day? Yes, if THATS the policy!
7) Should teachers get fired because many of their students didnt perform to expectations? If the failure is consistent, then yes.
8) Does school prepare students for their future? Schools do provide students w academic and social skills.
p.s. forgot to mention i asked him a few more questions but he didnt answer them because he didnt want to repeat himself with the other questions from other students. No names were given in the email for the other students so i cant give them credit for their work.
